3. The following is the link to the rules for the Illinois State Junior Science Fair. It is long, so I am not going to print it out for everybody! Illinois State Junior Science Fair
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Questions for "Where are the Volcanoes and Earthquakes" to accompany the first section of powerpoint on plate tectonics due at the end of class Wed 1/17
Monday October 23 (end of class) full final lab write-ups and visual aids for presentations (everything!)
Friday October 20 due conclusions and abstracts
Friday October 13 (may turn in on Wed. Oct 18) due data and results
Tuesday October 10 due entire lab report through the procedure (excluding the abstract)
Friday October 6 due introduction including internal citations and full references after the introduction.
Tuesday October 3 due procedure and materials including any materials that must be composed by the experimenters (such as written materials). Students may begin their experiments as soon as their procedures have been approved.
Friday Sept 29 due a stated hypothesis that contains an independent and dependent variable and the relationship between the two. Remember that your hypothesis must be written in a form that can be tested. This means that it cannot be too vague.
Thursday Sept 28 due 5 resources written in APA format. You should include under each reference a paragraph providing a summary of the content and a paragraph describing how will use this information in your lab report. Please have all papers printed (or written) and ready to hand in at the beginning of class.
Monday Sept 25 due on your individual experiments: chose a more specific topic, write the question that you are trying to answer (make sure it has some relevance incorporated) and list your partner (if you have one)
Individual experiments: 4 general topics of research due Wed Sept 20. The topics do not need to be specific enough to include experimental set-ups or hypotheses (yet). As a matter of fact, you are encouraged to just be researching right now to see if an idea that you would otherwise not have thought of comes to you. However, they can also not be so broad that they do not indicate anything about what you would really be studying. For example: "mechanical engineering or basketball." You could even have a couple of potential topics under these broader headings. The following are the three links that were discussed in the library.
For September 5 and September 6 Tues-Wed: Look at the websites suggested below to learn about pure (or fundamental) vs. applied (or technology) science. Be ready to discuss what you have learned on Wed. September 6
Items to keep throughout the year
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3. The following is the link to the rules for the Illinois State Junior Science Fair. It is long, so I am not going to print it out for everybody!
Illinois State Junior Science Fair
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8. exploravision website
9. Mr. Stone's website about exploravision with previous winners
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11. Plate tectonics powerpoint/webquest:
12. CNN link to information on the super blue blood moon lunar trifecta!
13. NASA link about the super blue blood moon
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16. Fracking websites shown in class. How does fracking work What the frack
Homework Assignments
End of first semester